Fancy Chicken and Rice Fancy Chicken in Rice is just one of the many recipes that caught my eye in “My Two Souths“. My two Souths is a new cookbook from Chef Asha Gomez of Cardamom Hill in Atlanta. The book blends together food from Southeast Asia with down home food of the south. […]

Truffle is an impulsive purchase. I have only had truffle mushrooms a few times. Truffle flavored popcorn made by a friend, truffle risotto, a truffle butter atop a simple slice of bread. White truffle oil is often over used, ladled over dishes where it should be drizzled. So why get Truffles? Fresh Produce is […]

Pike Place Market in January I started my 2017 exploration of Pike Place this weekend. I was curious what Pike Place would look like in January. I’m a local, and I enjoy Pike Place Market, but I’ve never been there at 8:45 on a Saturday Morning. It’s quiet, quieter then I had assumed it would be. […]

52 Weeks of Cooking: Fixing Polenta My polenta problems began in the late 90s I spent a number of years as a vegetarian. When you start a vegetarian diet you get clued in to a number of new foods to eat. New staples include tofu, tempeh and beans. Whole grains come center stage, and side […]

Olympia Provisions When we visited Portland last week, we made a stop at Olympia Provisions. I’m not sure my traveling companion, Kim, realized what a treat it was for me. Olympia Provisions is on the for front of what I consider the new charcuterie movement. It’s about taking local products, treating them with care […]

Pike Place Market is a Seattle institution. Tourists flock to the market during the summer. Exploring the market they dig through shops, buy fresh produce, sample the wares of the vendors. They buy tchotchkies and take home Wistfully they say “I wish I could shop here every […]

As you look back at 2016, It’s a good time to reflect. For me, that’s about the best thing I ate all year. On an average week I cook 4 nights, we dine out 1 night, we eat leftovers 2 nights a week. (With Mike in school twice a week, I haven’t been eating much […]

Meal Prep for me falls into a number of wide categories including the box meal services I have reviewed, building your meals at the beginning of the week. and heating them up as the week goes on, and prepped crockpot meals and freezer meals. Let’s make it easier to get food on the table. Making dinner […]

Cooking From a Box: Hello Fresh Since I did my first round of meal box reviews last year, there have been a number of new services on the market. Hello Fresh, Sun Basket (Already Reviewed), Terra’s Kitchen, Green Chef, Purple Carrot, Home Chef and more. Each box service has their own “thing”. Purple Carrot has […]

A year or so ago I did a review of Plated and Blue Apron, letting the two duke it out in my kitchen in a battle of the box meals. Since then, there have been a number of new services that deliver to my area. So it seemed like a perfect time to return to […]